Crystal BallCome see your life in my crystal glass - Twenty...

Crystal Ball

Come see your life in my crystal glass -

Twenty-five cents is all you pay.

Let me look into your past -

Here's what you had for lunch today:

Tuna salad and mashed potatoes,

Collard greens pea soup and apple juice,

Chocolate milk and lemon mousse.

You admit I've got told it all?

Well, I know it, I confess,

Not by looking, in my ball,

But just by looking at your dress.

SILVERSTEIN, S. Falling up. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996.

A curiosidade a respeito do futuro pode exercer um fascínio peculiar sobre algumas pessoas, a ponto de colocá-las em situações inusitadas. Na letra da música Crystal Ball, essa situação fica evidente quando é revelado à pessoa que ela